Desiderata - You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Desiderata

Somewhere, in the bottom of a musty box, tucked away in a dark corner of my parent’s house is a coil-bound, Hilroy notebook with a poorly handwritten copy of Desiderata taking up its last two pages. Desiderata is a prose poem I first encountered on a poster, tacked to the cork board wall beside my…